Christmas Party at Nicodemus Terrace [12/17]

[mslanalang]

Lana had handwavily invited everyone still playing a bunch of people to stop by on Sunday to help decorate and celebrate the upcoming holidays. She'd also told her friends to invite along anyone else they might want

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[medusae_x]

Duce contemplated the tree and the trimmings. The items Lana had looked too.. too.. what was the word.. classy. Totally not Duce's style at all. Frowning, pensive for a moment, she idly reached into her backpack and hauled out a small, multicoloured pad of construction paper. Glancing between it and the tree, snakes waving excitedly around her face, she eventually took a seat on a nearby cushion and tore out a sheet of green paper. Her fingers idly pleat-folded it while she eyed up the tree.

Re: Living Room

[medusae_x]

"Sounds like hell, only more boring," Duce commisserated. "I should think there'd be a bigger call for gay studies classes this year, what with it being an election year and all. And the vice president's lezbo daughter getting herself all preggers. Although studying that news item would probably fall under hypocricy and not gay studies." Definitely not opinionated, is Duce.

"Figured I was," she added, about the drugs. Coming to the end of her strips, she regarded the chain a moment and then pulled a piece of obnoxious yellow paper from the pad and folded it into a triangle. Using the tape, she fixed it to one end of the chain. "Is there any red paper left? I think it needs a tongue. The drug thing? Goes to show how stupid people can be. Trying to find enlightenment without doing any work kinda defeats the purpose of looking at all, or so I think."

Re: Living Room

[prof_ben]

Ben handed her a scrap of the red paper. "Mary getting pregnant is a big topic. Huge, actually, because of the anger its stirring up. Even if it's not discussed in lecture, it's sure to come up. Being a parent myself, I'm actually very interested in seeing what my students have to say, even if their arguments will definitely veer in a particular direction. At least the VP isn't being an ass about it; the only statement he's made is that they're looking forward to this grandchild."

"People do all sorts of things when they think it will 'open their mind.' Some people can't see the forest for the trees, so they take a chainsaw to all of them, without realizing they're destroying what they're trying to achieve."

((ooc: Crashing. Willing to SP.))

Re: Living Room

[medusae_x]

(ooc: Night! Will leave you sp threads of gorgon snark. I'll be slow all week due to work.)

Duce took the scrap of red and tore it into a tiny, 'Y' shaped tongue. Licking the single end, she affixed it to the end of the triangle. "I'm all for her squatting out as many kids as her uterus can handle," she said. "It's kind of a shame their other mother won't have any legal rights to them, and by kind of, I mean it's sick that it is. Dickhead may not have made any statements, but his politics speak for the real sentiments." She shrugged. "Politicians is dumb. Throw rocks at them."

"I suppose drugs are somewhat safer than tripanning. Cutting a hole in one's skull would seem, on the whole, to be a worse way to reach a higher state. But since drugs do the same damage without opening a physical wound, can't really say they're smarter." She shrugged again, "People is dumb. Throw rocks at them?"

Re: Living Room

[prof_ben]

"Perhaps being a mother, and learning what rights her partner doesn't have, will change some of the woman's politics. I'm not sure how she can back her father's policies, and not just those which affect her rights as someone in a committed same-sex relationship." He frowned. "I wonder how welcoming the family would have been toward their daughter's child if it had been the partner who had gotten pregnant."

Ben shuddered at the idea of cutting a hole in one's head. "Trepanning's been done for centuries, and people still haven't figured out it's not a good idea. I think the drugs actually do greater damage, in part because you can't see the effects as a wound. Granted, those who try trepanning on their own may not have much worth damaging anyway. Not sure I would advocate stoning anyone, although a few politicians would certainly benefit from the kind of stoning you can dole out. It would shut them up, at least."